14. The Piercing of the Side: Attack on the Sacraments

The Piercing of the Side: Attack on the Sacraments

"When they came to Jesus and saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. But one of the soldiers with a spear opened His side, and immediately there came out blood and water." (John 19:33-34)

The Fathers unanimously teach that the blood and water flowing from the Sacred Side revealed the birth of the Church and the outpouring of the Sacraments. St. Augustine declares that "the Church was formed from the side of Christ as Eve was formed from the side of Adam." St. John Chrysostom teaches that "from these two fountains the Mysteries of the Church take their beginning."

Blood: the Holy Eucharist.
Water: Baptism.

Thus, the piercing of the Side signifies both the wounding of the Redeemer and the manifestation of the sacramental life of His Mystical Body.

In the Passion of the Church, this moment becomes a terrifying parallel.

For just as the soldier pierced the physical Body of Christ, the Antichurch now pierces the Mystical Body - attacking at the very points from which life flows: the Sacraments.

I. The Attack on the Fountain of Baptism
The water that flowed from the Side is the cleansing water of regeneration.
The modernist revolution, however, has:
• altered the rites,
• altered the intention,
• altered the form,
• and in many cases annihilated the sacrament itself.

Invalid baptisms spread through the Vatican II antichurch like poison through the veins, leaving countless souls unmarked by grace. Modernist clergy treat Baptism as an initiation into community rather than a supernatural rebirth, and thus the water that flowed from the Side is despised.

II. The Attack on the Most Holy Eucharist
The blood that flowed from the Side is the Chalice of the New Testament.
In the Antichurch, the very words of consecration have been tampered with. The intention of the rite - as Leo XIII instructs - is no longer that of the Catholic Church.

Therefore:
• no sacrifice,
• no transubstantiation,
• no Eucharist,
• no Real Presence.

The spear has reached the Heart.

III. The Attack on Confession
From the Side of Christ flows mercy.
But in the Vatican II antichurch, Confession is trivialized, psychologized, or abolished. Modernist clergy deny sin, deny guilt, deny judgment, and deny the need for repentance. Thus the fountain of forgiveness is choked.

As St. Alphonsus teaches, "He who confesses without purpose of amendment receives not mercy but greater judgment." The Vatican II antichurch, by removing guilt, removes mercy itself.

IV. The Attack on Holy Orders
The Side of Christ opened the priesthood to the world.
The Antichurch has closed it by destroying its form.

Paul VI manufactured a new rite of ordination that does not express the conferral of the sacrificing priesthood.
Therefore:
• no priests,
• no sacrifice,
• no absolution,
• no Eucharist.

A pierced side yields blood and water; a pierced church yields emptiness.

V. The Attack on Matrimony
The Fathers teach that the Church is the Bride born from the Side of Christ.
The Antichurch, however, dissolves marriage by:
• annulment abuse,
• doctrinal ambiguity,
• false mercy,
• and acceptance of impurity.

Thus, the sacrament that images the union of Christ and His Bride is desecrated.

VI. The Attack on Extreme Unction
The Sacred Side is the door of mercy at the hour of death.
The modernist sect has poisoned or destroyed the means of salvation for the dying by replacing the Catholic rite with an invalid and modernist blessing.

Souls die without grace, not because Christ abandoned them, but because shepherds turned wolves.

VII. The Remnant Still Drinks From the Side of Christ
Though the Vatican II antichurch pierces the Mystical Body, Christ ensures that His grace continues to flow for His elect. The remnant preserves:
• valid Baptism,
• valid Eucharist where valid priests remain,
• valid Confession,
• valid Orders,
• valid Matrimony,
• valid Extreme Unction.

The blood and water still flow - not in the temples of apostasy, but in the humble chapels and hidden places where faithful priests offer the True Mass.

VIII. The Spear Reveals the Heart
The piercing of the Side is the unveiling of the Heart of Christ - the revelation of His love and His Sacraments.
In the Passion of the Church, the piercing reveals the opposite in the Antichurch:
• its hatred for the Sacraments,
• its contempt for grace,
• its desire to profane all that is holy.

But just as the spear did not destroy the Savior, so the sacramental assaults of modern Rome do not destroy the Church. They reveal the impostor. They distinguish the Bride from the harlot.

IX. The Pierced Side Will Triumph
What flows from the Side will outlive every spear.
What is born from the Heart will outlast every assault.
The Sacraments remain inviolable in their reality, even if the Antichurch simulates them.

The Passion of the Church leads, as it led for Christ, not to annihilation but to glory.

The last word will belong not to the soldier, but to the Heart.

"They shall look upon Him Whom they have pierced." (Zach. 12:10)

The remnant does not look with despair, but with hope - for the flow of blood and water still reaches them, cleansing, feeding, sanctifying, and preparing them for the Resurrection that follows.